The cycling ability is basically there to give the designers an excuse to use colored pips on the card, as a quick, clever visual reminder of which colors they're associated with
This would mean that virtually all collected Hourglasses would be useless, as they could not be used in upcoming booster packs
In a control deck, the card that clears the opponent's board is the linchpin, and Akainu fills that role for Sengoku's Navy
With morph, it was easy to lose your three-mana investment to a simple Shock (Shock is reprinted in MKM, but will require three mana to kill a disguised creature)
"People tell me they've got nothing else to do with it," he said
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